Drawbot no longer working after upgrading to Catalina

JTDType

I have installed drawbot as both a module and as a standalone app (as I did in the previous OS) but now neither seem to be working. I’ve done a clean install of python (3.7.4) and both drawbots and am getting a string of errors that seem to show up whenever a text() is used.

Here’s an example of some of it (I can paste it all if that would be helpful:

File "drawBot/drawBotDrawingTools.pyc", line 1623, in text
  File "drawBot/drawBotDrawingTools.pyc", line 1785, in textBox
  File "drawBot/context/baseContext.pyc", line 2351, in clippedText
  File "drawBot/context/baseContext.pyc", line 1203, in __getitem__
  File "drawBot/context/baseContext.pyc", line 930, in __init__
  File "drawBot/context/baseContext.pyc", line 938, in _setAttribute
  File "drawBot/context/baseContext.pyc", line 1377, in openTypeFeatures
  File "drawBot/context/baseContext.pyc", line 1391, in listOpenTypeFeatures
  File "drawBot/misc.pyc", line 362, in wrapper
  File "drawBot/context/tools/openType.pyc", line 509, in getFeatureTagsForFontName
  File "drawBot/context/tools/openType.pyc", line 495, in getFeatureTagsForDescriptions
  File "objc/_convenience_mapping.pyc", line 18, in __getitem__objectForKey_
  File "objc/_convenience.pyc", line 101, in container_unwrap
KeyError: 'CTFeatureSelectorIdentifier'

frederik

CTFeatureSelectorIdentifier is not available anymore on 10.15, let me check

frederik

follow up here https://github.com/typemytype/drawbot/pull/307

frederik

get a pre-release version here http://static.typemytype.com/drawBot/DrawBot10.15.dmg

see the pull request on github to see the changes and follow up the discussion

JTDType

Great—thank you so much!

JTDType

Any chance the Robofont Extension will be updated as well?

RMFRT

@frederik I installed the pre-release version but some (OpenType) features don’t seem to work.

I did a test with this basic script:

I have the following error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<untitled>", line 9, in <module>
  File "drawBot/context/baseContext.pyc", line 1772, in appendGlyph
AttributeError: module 'drawBot.context.tools.openType' has no attribute 'featureMap'

And of course it worked perfectly few days ago on my office computer (not upgraded to Catalina).

Thanks!

frederik

This has been fixed upstream. Will try to built a fresh release after the weekend